This is my personal weblog, about my daily life and adventures. I maintain it so I can be in touch with my friends who are far away, and as part of a personal memory project.
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2008.06.28
I'm watching Iron Man. I love Robert Downey Jr. The movie is kind of dumb, though, and lapses into French for twenty minutes in the middle. I wonder if it's just this copy.
Lina survived her speech...mine is Sunday. We have had a wonderful experience transforming from people who can't imagine giving a speech to people who are doing it. I may invite SN or Eric...certainly not both.
Two of my favorie people made another person. I'm sure he will also be extraordinary.
I've passed $8,000 to Javier and starting to get impatient because we've just made improvements in the status quo, not changes so far. Nice to have him around so much, though.
Worked a lot harder than I had in mind on this harrowing novel about Vietnam. It's almost 700 pages, and really sad. I have some work from CHCF, too, and because it's so varied I can't schedule a certain number of pages a day like I can with the novel, so it hasn't been getting its fair share of my attention.
I've been too busy to diet so I suppose I've become fattter.
My VW is completely broken again, and I think I know how I will proceed.
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2008.05.14
Bought four ceiling fans from Home Depot Online.
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2007.08.06
Bertrand fixed my mirror! Oh, that is nice. Otherwise, Portland to Hornbrook was uneventful, except for fifteen miles or so of Classic Country: Hot Rod Lincoln, The Phantom 309, The Ballad of Isaac Hayes, The Year that Clayton Delaney Died, a couple more. Oh, that one about the hippie whose car broke down in Oklahoma "I crammed my hair up under my hat." How did that get to be Classic Country? Guess it is, though.
After Hornbrook, I was overheating, and I was also out of gas.
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2006.05.20
The main thing I did today was put up the Vanagon ad. Also, based on Nikita's idea of following the Shangri-La diet, 
And Jesse came to visit! That was fun. He and Tasha will ALSO be in southern Chile in November or so.
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2005.04.29
Barry Stone referred me to Joe for some of the easier work on the house. Joe came over today on his bicycle. He was jolly.
I had the idea for a gear motif that I mentioned yesterday...I thought I would surely find some little toy geary things I could use for stamps at Toys R Us, but practically all the toys were electronic. That was icky.
Went to a dinner for New Yorkers and wannabes at Arinell's. New Yorkers are great. They say what they mean, and many I have met don't prejudge in the same way many Californians do. I liked everyone and had a good time, except for the eating Arinell's pizza part.
Then mandatory Sunday night Deadwood on TV, and mandatory Sunday night computer backups and synchronizations. *yawn*
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2004.04.25
You have to eat those green papaya salads the same day, so we had ours with canned mackerel. It was very good. Good enough to persuade me to buy more mackerel.
And then, you know what? New Jesse made us cookies! What a swell surprise.
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2003.05.11
I learned the secret of getting cheap fares to Toronto [travel.yahoo.com], and spent five hours getting five itineraries, so I didn't do much else today.
My favorite part of this weekend was reading the biography of comic artist Dori Seda, Dori Stories. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0867193751/
There were plenty of loving reminiscences of Dori, who died in 1988, lots of comix by friends of friends of mine, and even a really lovely story by Bruce Sterling imagining that both Dori and rock critic Lester Bangs had lived and met and got married. Oh, there were photos of some of her ceramics, too, and some of her foto-funnnies, which I had forgotten about.
Oh! I also figured out how to use Spam Cop http://spamcop.net/anonsignup.shtml, even though my mail application doesn't really support it. I can open the Trash of my mail application in a text editor and paste the whole thing into a mail to my special spamcop reporting address.
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2002.03.20
The last day of Directing Yourself was tonight. What a big success! Each person wrote a script and brought it to class, to teach us empathy for the positions of the writer and the director. I think part of the lesson was supposed to be how everyone feels when they have to work with a bad script, but the funny thing is, all the scripts were great, better than the professionally-written scripts we usually have.
Marilyn did a brilliant thing. She wrote a script with so many characters that just about everyone in the class participated. It was just a sixty-second commercial, but the point was some people went on a cruise for solitude and so many people came in and pestered them, so it makes sense that some people talk over each other. We just had the two mike stands so everyone had to line up in order and figure out how to get out of the way quickly. Of course we slated in order, too, so we ran through the whole routine of getting on mike for a sec quietly twice for each take.
Gay's Jamba Juice spot was hilarious, and starred Shems as a super-hero.
The star of my spot didn't understand it. But as director, I explained it to her in a way that didn't hurt her feelings, and she did better but didn't really make the joke work, and then I told her how to hit the joke, and as it turned out I directed her well and she took direction well, and it came out much better than I thought it would.
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